Comments on: Hop Picking Portraits

By: Vicki

Vicki — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 22:07:04 +0000

Thank you THCH for sharing this special time in history! It was a time when community and commerce came together to produce a resource we are sorely in need of. As I was searching my own family history for my personal hop-picking memories your project reached me! My brief connections were with the Adcock/Halliday family. I hope it’s OK to add my small contribution here: https://wartsandall.blog/2019/05/22/hop-pickers/ Well done everyone!

By: Debbie Hobbs

Debbie Hobbs — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 20:20:26 +0000

Janet Fulcher

my family went to buggs farm in the 50-60s , my mum was kathy hayes (hobbs) had bill and johnny have you any pics of that farm i have searched everywhere

By: janetfulcher

janetfulcher — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 17:53:00 +0000

i am writing this for my husband as he wood like to no if there is eny the boys that he went a round with on the farm and down the little hopper in five oak green. he would love to hear from them his name is bryan

By: janet fulcher

janet fulcher — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 12:00:52 +0000

is there any one what came down to buggs farm caple and remember my dad fred with the horses he works for mr buggs I married one of buggs hop picker I would love to hear for you

By: Pip Field

Pip Field — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 09:12:54 +0000

What a wonderful collection of memories and pics..Thanks.

By: Mandy Anson

Mandy Anson — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:58:22 +0000

Love looking at all these photos and am always looking for photos of relatives on here. My Grandad tells happy tales of going hop picking every Summer, but we don’t have very many photos of our family whilst they were in Kent. I know they were in the Horsmonden area. If anyone has any photos that include any of the Anson family, especially my Great-Grandma, Mary Anson – known as Aunt Mary to many, I believe (and quite a character by all accounts!) – then I’d love to hear from you…or if anyone has any stories….
Thanks in anticipation!
Mandy A

By: Carrie Kitkat

Carrie Kitkat — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 18:53:55 +0000

As a family, we moved to West Malling in 1972. We’d travelled the world and now we were in the Garden of England. I remember my Mum saying ‘they all come down from the East End to pick the hops’ – but I thought it was something they did much earlier.

What a great post – so lovely to hear the stories of cameraderie, rabbits and getting a legal high!

By: Jill

Jill — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 21:14:02 +0000

I grew up in Kent and remember the huts at Paddock Wood and the drey horses coming down from London for their summer holiday, too. My Grandma had a sweet shop and used to peddle sweets to the pickers in the hopfields just outside Sittingbourne. The smell of hops is so evocative of Kentish late summers! Lovely photos and memories…thank you, GA.

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 18:13:07 +0000

wish i could have attended this amazing cultural event. great post as always

By: Pauline Taylor

Pauline Taylor — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 17:51:11 +0000

I think that the East End must have been deserted at hop picking time! Lovely nostalgic writing and how wonderful all these people look, hop picking from such an early age for some of them certainly doesn’t seem to have done them any harm, quite the reverse. Thank you for another really interesting piece.